Living the simple life...

[wshaffer]

So, you might think that a girl could, when her alarm goes off at 6:30 a.m., manage to snuggle with spouse, get out of bed, make a cup of chai*, check the world news, update livejournal, meditate**, work out, stretch, shower, get dressed, eat breakfast, and make it to a 9:00 a.m. meeting on time. (Actually, looking at that list, I'm not sure that one would think that a girl could manage all of that, but that was the task list I set myself this morning.)

As things were, I skipped stretching (I'll make it up later) and breakfast (had whole wheat toast and peanut butter after meeting), and was still 10 minutes late to my meeting thanks to a mysterious traffic jam on Page Mill Road.

* I've gotten a tad superstitious about having my cup of chai before I do a Podrunner workout. It seems absurd to have a nice cup of hot milky tea just before working up a sweat, but the one time I skipped it, I had the worst post-workout nausea I've ever experienced.

** A sense of time pressure doesn't really contribute to a great meditation session, but since dealing with that OMG Gotta GO GO GO! feeling is one of the reasons I meditate, it would have felt silly to skip it.

Comments

[wshaffer.livejournal.com]

If you just want room for more data, one thing you can do is to create a second virtual disk for your Windows virtual machine and use Windows to format it. Just power off the virtual machine, edit the Settings, and select Add Hard Disk, and create a new disk with as much space as you'd like.

Then start up the virtual machine, log in to Windows as an Administrator, and start up the Microsoft Management console. (Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management). Select Disk Management. You should be able to right click on the disk and select Format or Initialize to format the new disk.

In theory, you should also be able to edit the virtual machine settings to increase the size of the main virtual disk, and then do something in Windows to get it to recognize the new available space, but I haven't come across a consistent set of instructions for doing that.

Hope that helps.

[sbuchler.livejournal.com]

I'll try it! Thank you!! :-)